Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Welke will create new, mixed media paintings about prairie, farmland burns, and land renewal. An exhibition, public conversation, and intergenerational painting workshop will be at the Northfield Arts Guild.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre.
Toni Gallo: Painter and teacher of yoga and meditation; Amanda Hamilton: Visual artist; professor of art, Bethel University; Jena Holliday: Illustrator; owner, Spoonful of Faith studio; Karen Savage-Blue: Visual artist and teacher; Eun-Kyung Suh: Art and design professor, University of Minnesota Duluth; Nathan White: Woodworking artist and craftsperson
ACHF Arts Access
Welke will develop new skills in mixed media paintings that will depict prairie and farmland burns in order to represent the cycle of land renewal. The outcome will be successful when this new, mixed media work is exhibited at the Northfield Arts Guild in Northfield, Minnesota. 2: The public will become aware of prairie and farmland burns through viewing art, group dialogue and will develop confidence in basic painting skills. The outcome will be successful when the work is exhibited to include an artist talk, public participation in an inter-generational painting workshop and by numbers of online engagement of an Instagram account created to document the project.
Welke developed new skills in mixed media paintings that depict prairie and farmland burns in order to represent the cycle of land renewal. The outcome was successful when this new, mixed media work was exhibited at the Northfield Arts Guild in Northfield, Minnesota. 2: The public became aware of prairie and farmland burns through viewing art, group dialogue and developed confidence in basic painting skills. The outcome was successful when the work was exhibited to include an artist talk, public participation in an inter-generational painting workshop and by numbers of online engagement of an Instagram account created to document the project.
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